Grand-Pré Rural Historic District

Grand-Pré Rural Historic District (HM1HPE)

Location: Grand Pré, Nova Scotia B0P 1M0 Kings County
Country: Canada
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N 45° 6.499', W 64° 18.59'

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Arrondissement Historique Rurual de Grand-Pré

English
The villages of Grand-Pré and Hortonville, and the fertile farmlands which surround them, comprise one of the oldest settlement and land use patterns of European origin in Canada. Acadians began settling near Grand-Pré in the 1680s, attracted by the vast stretches of tidal marshes. Employing ingenious dyke-building techniques developed at Port-Royal, Acadian farmers enclosed over one thousand acres of marshlands which, when desalinated, created superior cropland. The houses of Grand-Pré village, scattered amidst the orchards and woodlots of the upper fringe, stood along the southern boundary of the principal marsh. Following the Acadian deportation in 1755, a British township survey was superimposed on the area for the settlement of New England Planters, who adopted the existing marshland agricultural technology. The Planters' main settlement, which survives as the present villages of Grand-Pré and Hortonville, developed on the site of its Acadian predecessor. The combined agricultural traditions of the Acadians and the Planters have evolved to create a distinctive rural landscape of today's Grand-Pré.

French

Les villages de Grand-Pré et de Hortonville, ainsi que les fertiles terres agricole qui les entourent, présentent un de modèles européens de colonisation et d'utilisation des terres parmi les plus anciens au Canada. Attirés par les vastes marais côtiers, les Acadiens s'établirent dans les envions de Grand-Pré à partier de années 1680. Les fermiers acadiens utilisèrent les techniques ingénieuses de construction de digues développées à Port-Royal pour encore plus de mille acres de marais qui, un fois dessalé, constituèrent des terres labourables de grande qualité. Les maisons du village de Grand-Pré, situées au milieu des vergers et des boisés des hauteurs périphériques, bordaient la limite sud de marais principal. Après la deportation des Acadiens en 1755, les terres furent redivisées en cantons à la manière britannique en vue de l'arrivée des Planters de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, qui adoptèrent la technologue agricole en place. Le principal établissement des Planters, aujourd'hui les villages de Grand-Pré et de Hortonville, se développa sur le site de l'établissement acadien précédent, Le paysage rural distinctif de l'actuel Grand-Pré est le produit de l'évolution des traditions agricoles des Acadiens et des Acadiens et des Planters.
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HM NumberHM1HPE
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Placed ByHistoric Sites and Monument Board of Canada/Commission de lieux et monuments historique du Canada
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Date Added Saturday, November 8th, 2014 at 3:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)20T E 396959 N 4995817
Decimal Degrees45.10831667, -64.30983333
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 6.499', W 64° 18.59'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 6' 29.94" N, 64° 18' 35.4" W
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Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling South
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 2105-2207 Grand Pré Rd, Grand Pré Nova Scotia B0P 1M0, CA
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